000			03386nam a2200397Ki 4500
001			on1118692193
003			OCoLC
005			20240726105133.0
008			190911s2019 nyu ob s001 0 eng d
040			_aNT _beng _erda _epn _cNT
020			_a9781438477411 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
043			_aa-ii---
050	0	4	_aHD1516 _b.G743 2019
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBhattacharya, Neeladri, _e1
245	1	0	_aThe great agrarian conquest : _bthe colonial reshaping of a rural world / _cNeeladri Bhattacharya.
260			_aAlbany : _bState University of New York Press, _c(c)2019.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
520	0		_a"This book examines how, over colonial times, the diverse practices and customs of an existing rural universe--with its many forms of livelihood--were reshaped to create a new agrarian world of settled farming. While focusing on Punjab, this path breaking analysis offers a broad argument about the workings of colonial power: the fantasy of imperialism, it says, is to make the universe afresh. Such radical change, Bhattacharya shows, is as much conceptual as material. Agrarian colonization was a process of creating spaces that conformed to the demands of colonial rule. It entailed establishing a regime of categories--tenancies, tenures, properties, habitations--and a framework of laws that made the change possible. Agrarian colonization was in this sense a deep conquest. Colonialism, the book suggests, has the power to revisualize and reorder social relations and bonds of community. It alters the world radically, even when it seeks to preserve elements of the old. The changes it brings about are simultaneously cultural, discursive, legal, linguistic, spatial, social, and economic. Moving from intent to action, concepts to practices, legal enactments to court battles, official discourses to folklore, this book explores the conflicted and dialogic nature of a transformative process. By analyzing this great conquest, and the often-silent ways in which it unfolds, the book asks every historian to rethink the practice of writing agrarian history and reflect on the larger issues of doing history"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aIntroduction: The great agrarian conquest -- _tMasculine paternalism and colonial governance -- _tHow villages were found -- _tIn search of tenures -- _tThe power of categories -- _tCodifying custom -- _tRemembered pasts -- _tBeyond the code -- _tFear of the fragment -- _tColonising the commons -- _tThe promise of modernity, antinomies of development -- _tEpilogue: The last ride.
530			_a2 _ub
650		0	_aAgricultural colonies _zIndia _zPunjab _xHistory.
650		0	_aAgriculture and state _zIndia _zPunjab _xHistory.
650		0	_aSocial change _zIndia _zPunjab _xHistory.
650		0	_aVillages _zIndia _zPunjab _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2248009&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hHD. _m2019 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
999			_c90169 _d90169
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell